Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awkward sea legs, a stubby (5 ft. 2 in.) Japanese shambled last week into a white-walled ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard. He wore a poor-quality, ill-fitting blue suit; there was nothing in his bearing or his sagjawed face, as expressionless as a teak deck, to show that he had been a commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy, commanding officer of the submarine I-58. He had left a wife and three small children at his house in bomb-battered Kure...
...years ago. Dress designers have rallied to fight the battle of the bulge-with greatly exaggerated squaring of shoulders, nipped-in waists, cascading and flaring skirts, peplums, hip-length swagger jackets. Typical London fashion ad last week: "for the slim or not-so-slim," "for the more awkward figure...
...resentment of Western exploitation, colonial, subservient Asia had begun to disintegrate decades ago. World War II had greatly accelerated the process. The war had enfeebled, physically and psychologically, the claims of Western power over the Eastern treasure house. The French and Dutch, hungry and shivering at home, seemed particularly awkward in the role of guardians of empire...
Some of the writing is awkward, and there is very little development in any of the characters except Miss Ferroni and one of the children. Not that there isn't plenty of action, and changes in the temper of the relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just...
Woodcock might well be the exception to a long line of glass-chinned British heavyweights, but shrewd Tom Hurit, his manager, knew that the 24-year-old slugger was still awkward afoot and short on ring savvy. Woodcock needed two years of seasoning before he could even think of stepping into a ring with a Billy Conn or a Joe Louis. Step One was to put him on a full-time fighting basis. Until now, the pride of Yorkshire had worked all day in a Doncaster railroad shop, trained nightly in a hayloft. Since there is no one left...